Proxy

Tidewave implements the Streamable HTTP transport of the MCP protocol. Some MCP clients may only support the stdio transport, and so we provide a proxy. See the installation instructions on GitHub.

Once installation concludes, take note of the full path the mcp-proxy was installed at. It will be necessary in most scenarios in order to use Tidewave. Note on Windows the executable will also have the .exe extension.

The proxy also handles automatic reconnection upon restart of the dev server, and so we also recommend the proxy in cases where a native HTTP implementation is available in your MCP client that does not properly handle reconnection.